TNH CLIPS - How to Evaluate Used Trailers For Sale?
Truck N' Hustle
Rahmel Wattley
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | process for for buying trailers one where do you get them two and how do you distinguish what's |
| 0:07.0 | going to be for sale what's going to be for lease so our plans so what we do is we source trailers |
| 0:13.0 | we actually figure out what we're going to do on the new trailer side and we put that budget |
| 0:19.3 | together and those numbers together for new trailers, and we send that over |
| 0:24.0 | to Frouhof on an annual basis. |
| 0:28.0 | And, you know, their production, last year wasn't able to really keep everybody needed trailers |
| 0:33.5 | last year. |
| 0:34.1 | So, you know, they had, they were maxed out and they told us exactly how |
| 0:38.7 | many we could get, which was probably a couple hundred fewer than what we requested. |
| 0:43.9 | So we source all of our new trailers from Frouhoff. We will do some new drive vans and new |
| 0:50.3 | chassis. We will do some one-off type purchases from other dealers every now and then if they have |
| 0:57.1 | equipment that we need that's outside of what Fruhoff can manufacture. |
| 1:03.8 | But, you know, 99.9% of our new trailers come from Fruhoff. |
| 1:08.7 | I use trailers. |
| 1:10.2 | They normally come from brokers that I use trailers they normally come from |
| 1:11.4 | brokers that we've been working with forever and most of those are guys that I |
| 1:16.5 | worked with that you know my G capital days who are still in the business and |
| 1:20.2 | their sourcing trailers we also buy from other dealers which we normally don't do that much of because, you know, |
| 1:29.9 | they're priced a lot higher. |
| 1:31.4 | We at one point bought from auctions, but we don't do that anymore because, you know, when |
| 1:36.1 | things were at, when pricing was at an all-time high in demand was, you know, at its peak, |
| 1:41.5 | those trailers were going for more than market-based prices at the |
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